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An example of dspace.cfg converted to XML: ExampleDspaceConfig^ExampleDspaceConfig.xml
The benefit of the above approach in formating properties is that we get XML immediately without altering the inital lookup API of ConfigurationManager.
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Initial efforts in converting ConfigurationManager resulted in the following patch (just for ConfigurationManager) which uses an XML'zed version of the properties file. This does not include changes neccessary to adapt the rest of the DSpace library to commons configuration. which are soon to come.
configuration^configuration-manager-patch.txt
The way properties are accessed from ConfigurationManager will change significantly further patches are being written to handle those cases.
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